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Johnny Cash’s Perfect, Semi-efficient To-do List
Simple. Brilliant. From a very interesting post about the history of to-do lists which also offers a jumpstart on how to begin writing to-dos to organize your life.
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The IT Department Is Dead. Long Live the IT Department | Marcus Wohlsen
Libin says there’s an even better way to keep employees happy: Give them the freedom to use the software they actually like. This, of course, flies in the face of the stereotypical IT department,...
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Who touched base in my thought shower? | Steven Poole
Who touched base in my thought shower is a book by Steven Poole (who writes the on Reading it, I was often reminded of the Bill Lumbergh character in Office Space: Only after working in »
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A primer on Visual Encoding
Michael Dubakov has this great introduction to visual encoding, along with samples and easy to remember rules, so you don’t mess up the next time you’re trying to visualize data.
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How to build quick and free charts
Back in July 2013, the guys from released their Chartbuilder tool to the rest of the world. Quartz is a very successful online magazine. For their charting needs they use Chartbuilder, a web tool they...
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How to demo an app in six steps | John Nelson
Over in his blog, John Nelson gives us a full step by step recommendations on how to successfully demo an app in front of an audience. In my case, my two biggest mistakes are usually going too fast or...
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amCharts, a charting library for creating interactive web charts
amCharts is a new JavaScript library for creating charts on the web. It handles many types of charts and it’s somewhat reminiscent of D3.js. Its most exciting feature is a live editor, which removes...
View ArticleHow to create an embeddable timeline chart
The other day, web developer friend asked me how to create and insert a timeline into WordPress. He actually wanted to put an interactive timeline with links, images and video on the homepage of a...
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Two Dropbox alternatives
Like everyone else, I’ve run out of space in my Dropbox and my Google Drive. Besides, I’m low on space in my hard drive, so I’ve been looking for a solution that enables me to do manual backups, to...
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Data + Design
A team of over 50 people have collaborated in Data+Design, a book about preparing and visualizing information. It’s a thorough but simple introduction to data collection and visualization, very...
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A reliable list of country codes
Who knows how much time I’ve wasted over the years trying to find a reliable data source for country names, ISO codes, phone prefixes and currencies. I have my own personal dysfunctional set of tables...
View ArticleCreating interactive visualizations of large datasets using JavaScript
Crossfilter is a JavaScript library initially designed by Square to explore large multivariate datasets in a web browser. It basically allows you to create sorted indexes and feed them to a charting...
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